Attitude
Greg found himself in an unexpected fit of giggles when a phrase innocently fell from Mycroft’s lips.
“Oh, that is your puerile thoughts giggle…”
“Sorry! Sorry!” Greg brought a serviette to his lips. “It was an inside joke with my family.”
“Oh?” Mycroft brows furrowed trying to fathom how what he said while semi-jokingly kvetching about a colleague could cause such.
“It started with Mum fussing with my dad. Went over my head at first because I was too young. Took a bit to get the correlation.” Greg turned a little pink. “Once I did? It was weeks before I could keep a straight face when heard.”
Greg knew Mycroft knew him well, he understood Mycroft was aware he was stalling by the indulgent little smile that played at his lips as he made a go on gesture.
“When Mum was in a… let’s say flirtatious mood and didn’t want me to know she would comment on Papa’s attitude. How Papa had a lot of attitude. Or if Papa was in a mood that was reciprocated, she’d tease ‘not with that attitude!’”
“Ah…” Mycroft nodded, getting the correlation as he had just said the words himself. “Not that it was meant the same when said to you, I gather.”
“Thank goodness!” Greg shuddered with a laugh. “I eventually cottoned on. I was using it myself for a while, calling it my attitude, but like most jokes told too often, it eventually lost its humor. With some notable exceptions.”
Because he knew Mycroft well, Greg watched as Mycroft studied him.
“You have commented on my attitude several times of late, Gregory.”
“I know...”
Greg saw the surprise as those mental wheels spun.
He saw when the conclusion was reached.
And he saw Mycroft’s understandably wary, but definite happiness of that conclusion.
“Are you saying you meant it in the same context as your female progenitor?”
“I am…”
“You want…”
“All of your attitude…? I do.”
“So, you’ve realized that thought is…reciprocated?”
“Oh yes, I have…”
They sat acknowledging the screaming unsaid.
“Shall we… check our attitudes then?”
“Oh, lets.”
Greg smiled taking Mycroft’s hand.
Signaling for the check, Mycroft grinned.
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AO3 Top Relationships Bracket- Round 2 Side 1
This poll is a celebration of fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.
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Authority problem - (2023)
“Didn't we have a conversation not two days ago? If I remember correctly, it was about you stopping to put yourself in harm's way for your husband?”
“Don't remember. You should know me by now, I have a very bad memory.”
“And an authority problem, so it seems…”
“That too, gorgeous. But that's part of my charm.”
A big thank you to @vegetadaily for the beta 💗
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Since Sherlock Holmes is trending... I know yall love to shit on BBC Sherlock, saying how you only liked it back then bc you were cringe teens. I also know that the second they'd announce a 5th season, yall would keep crawling back immediatly.
I know bc I would.
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Husbands
Mycroft, wondering how Sherlock, after so many years, STILL manages to come up with new and more terrible ways to ruin his life.
Greg, having adopted this gesture after seeing his husband do it one too many times.
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